Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: On the mountain's top appearing
Topic: Church/Missionary
Writer: Thomas Kelly
Composer: Thomas Hastings
Meter: 8s 7s and 4s
Tune: Zion
Hymn Number: 524
Page Number: 181, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsON THE mountain's top appearing,
Lo! the sacred herald stands,
Welcome news to Zion bearing-
Zion, long in hostile lands.
Mourning captive,
God himself will loose thy bands.
Has thy night been long and mournful?
Have thy friends unfaithful proved?
Have thy foes been proud and scornful,
By thy sighs and tears unmoved?
Cease thy mourning:
Zion still is well beloved.
God, thy God, will now restore thee;
He himself appears thy Friend;
All thy foes shall flee before thee;
Here their boasts and triumphs end;
Great deliverance
Zion's King will surely send.
Peace and joy shall now attend thee;
All thy warfare now be past;
God, thy Saviour, will defend thee;
Vic-to-ry is thine at last;
All thy conflicts
End in everlasting rest.